A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to application crash and local denial of service.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 943f8915-6c5d-11ef-810a-f8b46a88f42c advisory.

    alster@vinterdalen.se reports PR/281070:
    A new version of devel/binutils has been released fixing                  CVE-2023-1972, CVE-2023-25585, CVE-2023-25586, and                  CVE-2023-25588.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the binutils package has been released.

An update of the gdb package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function (CVE-2017-7614)

  - The srec_scan function in bfd/srec.c in libdbfd in GNU binutils before 2.25 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a small S-record. (CVE-2014-8484)

  - The setup_group function in bfd/elf.c in libbfd in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted section group headers     in an ELF file. (CVE-2014-8485)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - binutils: out-of-bounds write in stab_xcoff_builtin_type() in stabs.c (CVE-2021-45078)

  - binutils version 2.32 and earlier contains a Integer Overflow vulnerability in objdump,     bfd_get_dynamic_reloc_upper_bound,bfd_canonicalize_dynamic_reloc that can result in Integer overflow     trigger heap overflow. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.. This attack appear to     be exploitable via Local. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit     3a551c7a1b80fca579461774860574eabfd7f18f. (CVE-2018-1000876)

  - The ignore_section_sym function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as     distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, does not validate the output_section pointer in the case of a symtab     entry with a SECTION type that has a 0 value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by objcopy.
    (CVE-2018-10535)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - binutils: NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function (CVE-2017-7614)

  - The _bfd_vms_save_sized_string function in vms-misc.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka     libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of     bounds heap read via a crafted vms file. (CVE-2017-12449)

  - The _bfd_xcoff_read_ar_hdr function in bfd/coff-rs6000.c and bfd/coff64-rs6000.c in the Binary File     Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote     attackers to cause an out of bounds stack read via a crafted COFF image file. (CVE-2017-12451)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in     zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. NOTE: MiniZip is not a supported     part of the zlib product. NOTE: pyminizip through 0.2.6 is also vulnerable because it bundles an affected     zlib version, and exposes the applicable MiniZip code through its compress API. (CVE-2023-45853)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a     DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48063)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function     find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c. (CVE-2022-48065)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in     zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. NOTE: MiniZip is not a supported     part of the zlib product. NOTE: pyminizip through 0.2.6 is also vulnerable because it bundles an affected     zlib version, and exposes the applicable MiniZip code through its compress API. (CVE-2023-45853)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a     DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48063)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function     find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c. (CVE-2022-48065)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in     zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. NOTE: MiniZip is not a supported     part of the zlib product. NOTE: pyminizip through 0.2.6 is also vulnerable because it bundles an affected     zlib version, and exposes the applicable MiniZip code through its compress API. (CVE-2023-45853)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in     zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. NOTE: MiniZip is not a supported     part of the zlib product. NOTE: pyminizip through 0.2.6 is also vulnerable because it bundles an affected     zlib version, and exposes the applicable MiniZip code through its compress API. (CVE-2023-45853)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn     by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none. (CVE-2023-25587)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the     `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of     service. (CVE-2023-25588)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn     by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none. (CVE-2023-25587)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the     `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of     service. (CVE-2023-25588)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers     to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-19726)

  - An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.36. It is a stack-overflow     issue in demangle_type in rust-demangle.c. (CVE-2021-32256)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function     display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-35205)

  - Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function     read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c. (CVE-2022-35206)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-44840)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-45703)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out     of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. (CVE-2022-47673)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c. (CVE-2022-47695)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols. (CVE-2022-47696)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a     DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48063)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function     find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c. (CVE-2022-48065)

  - ** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This     vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor.
    The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this     vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically     addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or     input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled. (CVE-2023-0687)

  - Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64. (CVE-2023-1579)

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the     `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of     service. (CVE-2023-25588)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in binutils libbfd.c 2.36 relating to the auxiliary symbol data allows attackers     to read or write to system memory or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-19726)

  - An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.36. It is a stack-overflow     issue in demangle_type in rust-demangle.c. (CVE-2021-32256)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function     display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-35205)

  - Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function     read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c. (CVE-2022-35206)

  - An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599. (CVE-2022-4285)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-44840)

  - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in     file readelf.c. (CVE-2022-45703)

  - An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out     of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. (CVE-2022-47673)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c. (CVE-2022-47695)

  - An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols. (CVE-2022-47696)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a     DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48063)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the     function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file     and cause a DNS attack. (CVE-2022-48064)

  - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function     find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c. (CVE-2022-48065)

  - ** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This     vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor.
    The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this     vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically     addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or     input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled. (CVE-2023-0687)

  - Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64. (CVE-2023-1579)

  - A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability. (CVE-2023-1972)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25585)

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the     `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of     service. (CVE-2023-25588)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6101-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain DWARF files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10.
    (CVE-2023-1579)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils did not properly verify the version definitions in zer0-lengthverdef     table. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10 and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-1972)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils did not properly validate the size of length parameter in vms-alpha.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or access sensitive information. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-25584)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils did not properly initialized the file_table field of struct module and     the_bfd field of asymbol. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2023-25585, CVE-2023-25588)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
206744	FreeBSD : binutils -- Multiple vulnerabilities (943f8915-6c5d-11ef-810a-f8b46a88f42c)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
204564	Photon OS 4.0: Binutils PHSA-2023-4.0-0417	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204554	Photon OS 5.0: Gdb PHSA-2023-5.0-0060	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
204288	Photon OS 4.0: Gdb PHSA-2023-4.0-0440	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204096	Photon OS 3.0: Binutils PHSA-2023-3.0-0604	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204059	Photon OS 3.0: Gdb PHSA-2023-3.0-0686	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
203542	Photon OS 5.0: Binutils PHSA-2023-5.0-0087	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
200048	RHEL 6 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
200030	RHEL 8 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
199956	RHEL 7 : binutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
192078	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-1354)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
192055	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-1375)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188982	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-1029)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188977	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3324)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188922	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-1003)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188914	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-1078)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188878	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2675)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
188844	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3292)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188834	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2748)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
188818	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2633)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
188807	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2717)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
188746	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-1054)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
182107	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
181753	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
176325	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-6101-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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